In the Transbaikal peasant (farming) households "Ranks" are planning to divorce Jacob and chinakov — a cross between a Yak with a cow, informs a press-service of administration of Borzya district. In the farm last year brought the yaks of Buryatia — head 53; the resulting young.

Today, the staff of the Transbaikal agrarian Institute are studying the process of acclimatization of animals in the forest-steppe zone and check the morphological composition of blood of animals. According to head of the Department of agriculture Borzya district Mikhail Nimai, from yaks, get meat, wool, skin and milk.

"The low milk yield of these animals kompensiruet high fat content of milk and its amazing healing properties. A liter of Yak milk caloric content is superior to cow is almost three times. This quality colostrum and milk is due to the ability of young animals to rapidly grow and develop, to be especially frisky, well resist to low temperature, various diseases", — said the expert.

To get chinaka, Yak needed to be raised among domestic cows from infancy. Hynek lives up to 30 years — three times longer than cow, and therefore brings more calves. It is larger Yak, his hair shorter, he has stamina and is adapted to high mountain pastures.